I think it is quicker to look at my wrist to see if it is something I shouldn't reach in my pocket for, turn it on, glance at useless message, turn it off, then put it back in my pocket. How many times do you look at phone for half a second only to put it back? I would much rather just look at my wrist.

Why would I need to compose on my watch? It is simply for notifications. Like I said, I love just quickly glancing at my wrist instead of constantly pulling my phone out of pocket, turning it on, reading, turning it off, then back in pocket. I would say that 80 to 90% of notifications don't need responding to now, and some are just informational. Glancing at my wrist quickly is a much easier way of going about things especially if you are on the move. If I need to respond, THEN I pull my phone out. Which, is much less frequent. And lots of times, it is a quick swipe to enter short predefined messages such as ok or I'll be there or on my way. Much quicker than typing.

I have used Google Voice to Text ever since my Droid 1 Keyboard keys fell off from overuse.

Although it is faster to Voice to text for emails and text messages, Google Voice to text makes an error almost every 3 words, and it hasn't gotten any better since 2010.

I have found a trick to get Google Voice to text to work perfectly. Just use a monotone voice and speak like a robot annunciating every word slightly slower than you normally would. Just don't do it in public.

Who in the world is going to actually type out "what is the weather going to be today" - on a watch, or on a phone, or even on a full-sized computer? You might as well have typed "pardon me, google-wear smart device strapped to my wrist, but, if it's not ever so much bother, would you mind informing me as to the most likely tropospheric conditions - meteorologically speaking - in the present vicinity within approximately the next twenty-four hours?"

Works pretty good with finnish to dictate hangouts messages, some times have to cancel and try again saying slower/faster/clearer and then it works. I use it mostly when i am alone but for other situations i type it with smartphone or windows 8 hybrid. Maybe someone would but i am not going to buy smartwatch keyboard, i have bought too many alredy to my android devices(thumb keyboard and swype which i use nowdays both works with single purchase with smartphone and tablet, swiftkey was separate apps to buy when i bought thumb keyboard and when i bought swype)

I hope that more messasing apps will add good support for android wear like whatsapp, facebook, viber.

lol. These watches are a joke at the moment. Hopefully they can find enough suckers to buy them at their current state so they at least have incentive to push this tech further. Like the idea, but these aren't even half baked.

Don't forget that there are hearing impaired people out there too that might enjoy a smartwatch...

And just for the rest of us, there are times when you might want to reply quickly and it would still be easier than digging your phone out of your pocket, and you might not be able to say, "Find him and kill him" in a present company...

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